City streets Quote by Mike Wallace

“The consequences of dependence on the horse in 1870 involved negative externalities unrecognized by GDP, including manure and urine distributed on the streets and…

— Robert J. Gordon

And no matter how serious an environmental problem the automobile poses in today's big city, the horse was dirtier, smelled worse, killed and maimed…

— Peter Drucker

“News flash, horses poop about fifty pounds of manure a day. That’s per horse. Of course cows poop about three times that, so we…

— Susan Mallery

“New York horses were driven until they expired, and as many as a hundred horses collapsed daily in the streets. It was often a…

— Stephen Birmingham

We're told cars cause pollution. A hundred years ago city streets were ankle deep in horse excrement. What kind of pollution do you want?…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told…

— P. J. O'Rourke

“In every great city, with all its gleaming walls and massive libraries, with all the shimmering fountains and sculptured gardens, there is a superfluity…

— Jeff Wheeler

“She was like a farmer who keeps horses in order to haul away the manure that they generate.”

— Paula Marantz Cohen

“The mere phrase ‘artificial manure’ told the whole story.”

— Anthony Powell

“I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered.”

— Kaaron Warren

“Even manure can accomplish great things when placed into the right environment.”

— Raymond C. Nolan

“It is not just that human trash accumulates in cities—it is that cities turn what accumulates in them into trash.”

— Nicolás Gómez Dávila